FTP Buffer Error

[cmhunt]

Hi

I'm trying to run a simple FTP script that gets a file from an FTP server and places it locally. The script is

<?php
// set up basic connection and login with username and password
$ftp_server=&quot;********&quot;;
$ftp_user_name=&quot;****&quot;;
$ftp_user_pass=&quot;****&quot;;
$day=str_pad(date(&quot;z&quot;)+1,3,&quot;0&quot;,STR_PAD_LEFT);
$source_file='*******************';
$destination_file='******************';
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
        echo &quot;FTP connection has failed!&quot;;
        echo &quot;Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name&quot;;
        exit;
    } else {
        echo &quot;Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name&quot;;
    }
ftp_close($conn_id);
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_ASCII)) {
	        echo &quot;FTP upload has failed!&quot;;
	    } else {
	        echo &quot;Downloaded $source_file From $ftp_server to $destination_file&quot;;
    }
?>

When I run it, I get the error:
Warning: ftp_get(): 1 is not a valid FTP Buffer resource in ****************** on line 21

Then an empty file is transferred to the local destination. Please can someone tell me where I'm going wrong??

Thanks

Chris

 

[sleipnir214]

You're closing the ftp handle before you attempt to invoke ftp_get() using that handle.

Move the ftp_close() line to later in the script.

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[cmhunt]

I'm sorry, that is possibly the most embarrassing post ever!!

 

[sleipnir214]

No, I had one once when I was new to PHP where I had consistently mispelled one PHP function name. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why PHP was complaining about parse errors.

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